Posted:29th May 2006Hiya people!! This is my first thread in this Forums, and I thought this subject should be in here. If that isn't the case, I'm really sorry and please correct me *Gives fire staff* have fun!

Anyway, to get to the point, while practicing I usually hit myself in the head, leg and belly lots! Lol, it's something I have to work on.

When you are practicing.. do you hit yourself a lot? and if so, and you found a cure for that, this could be a good place to share that information to save up on bandages.

Posted:9th Jun 2006right now i tend to get hit alot, usually either in the nads (only took 1 time b4 i started using a cup though) or in the head - most painful time was when the quicklink decided to work itself loose and the head flew off and the end of the chain hit me in the head. not sure why i didn't check all the hardware that time. i make double sure now though.

Posted:9th Jun 2006my funniest moment was a neck wrap gone wrong.........my poor nose got burnt on the end. years later people still tease me lol

most painful was practising with 4 poi, i cracked my self in the outside corner of the right eye, right on the bone. there was no escaping the pain loli just dropped the poi and went inside. it was shocking, words cant describe..............

we used to think that if your not hitting yourself your not pushing to extend youreself, but now weve learned how to dodge!

Posted:11th Jun 2006when I started, my body got full of bruises, and they hurted!! And always my poi (I startet with chains -stupid me.. ) hitted the same bruises- on and on and on. That really hurted. My gymtecher even asked me, if I get beaten up. It was really funny in a way

Posted:14th Jun 2006i started spinning four days ago and now unless i try something i cant do then injuries do seem to be getting less...i nailed my self in the groin too many times the other day so made some sock poi filled with more soft socks...much safer to learn with than the neon glowing balls of ouch i got firstly...they can leave a fairly decent black eye when too close to my face

Posted:18th Jun 2006when i first started my poi used to love playing with my nose. i was using cobra 2's and the tennis ball inside hurt alot when it hit u in the nose so a mate told me to slice the tennis ball in the middle about 4/5ths of the way around so its just hanging on. then it stopped hurting so much. now i use sock poi with juggling balls in them and they hurt if they hit but i dnt really hit my self much anymore like some people have said u tend to earn to control the poi better and even if you mess up you learn to pull them or your self out the way. but i find with my fire poi theres no dogging those evil little balls of fire they just don't like me any ways!

DONT DO DRUGS THERE BAD FOR YOU.SO GIVE THEM ALL TO ME AND I WILL GET RID OF THEM FOR YOU!

Posted:18th Jun 2006crap. just smashed my eye and temple. i was doing a reverse weave at 3 o'clock in the morning... Tired as a sloth.. well, my arms just gave up and the poi directed to my eye and caused me to move left after the collision. That regretfuly knocked my temple, leaving me and my sister laughing histarically.

Posted:19th Jun 2006I did a bad thing last night, got mildly tipsy, and figured out I poi-ed better under-the-influence than not. For the longest time, I had been struggling to get my Mexican Wave to clean up..... and it just clicked. There were a few bad crashes, but I didn't feel them, so I didn't care. We weren't burning, and the fuel was locked up. But gosh darn if those LED sticks don't leave marks!

I haven't poied yet this morning, but I'm scared to attempt it, because the problem with waking up after poi-ing while drunk is you see the bruises you couldn't feel last night.

Posted:19th Jun 2006I almost never hit myself anymore. After 2 years as a fire preformer I can pretty much do anything that I normally do in my routine in my sleep. When I'm trying to pick up or create something new I hit myself though. Over the whole time I've been working with fire I've burned myself once and came close one other time.

Posted:20th Jun 2006I am finding the better I get the more I hit myself, and harder. It's something to do with more complex/adventurous moves and spinning faster.Classic one today:Merrily spinning in some random fashion and I think "ooh, can I raise these higher, oh yeah, lets see if they can flip behind my head..." WHACK, "oh dear, that used to be my nose". Once it stopped smarting and bleeding it was all ok though.

Posted:21st Jun 2006I mostly hit myself in the boobies which hurts, gonna have to get a metal bra or somethin.I hit myself lots coz i'm pretty new at poi, and find that when i'm trying to crack a trick if i use my brain i can't do it, but if i stop thinking and trying to work it out, and just try to feel it, it gets easier. Does this relate to the concept of planes everyone talks about? is that where you get your brain to 'see' the planes? or am i just talking nonsense?

I like Neon's idea, and yes it is a bit like active meditation...Tinks xx

Written by: Neon_Shaolin

I do alot more now because this last year I've started inadvertently poi-ing whilst closing my eyes...

It wasn't a conscious choice but I grown to like doing it with my eyes closed. I think I'm doing pretty well as it helps to improve body memory than depending on my eyes to pull off a move...

Plus now it feels more like meditating...

May the wind always be at your back and the sun always upon your face, and the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars

I mostly hit myself in the boobies which hurts, gonna have to get a metal bra or somethin.I hit myself lots coz i'm pretty new at poi, and find that when i'm trying to crack a trick if i use my brain i can't do it, but if i stop thinking and trying to work it out, and just try to feel it, it gets easier. Does this relate to the concept of planes everyone talks about? is that where you get your brain to 'see' the planes? or am i just talking nonsense?

I like Neon's idea, and yes it is a bit like active meditation...Tinks xx

my mum hit herself in her boob when she tried so put em down sharpish. I dont know too much about planes because ive only been doing poi for 5 weeks